Religion-based civil wars

The Syrian Civil War was an armed conflict that began with the Syrian revolution in March 2011, when popular discontent with the Ba'athist regime ruled by Bashar al-Assad triggered large-scale protests and pro-democracy rallies across Syria, as part of the wider Arab Spring. The Assad regime responded to the protests with lethal force, which led to a series of defections, the emergence of armed opposition groups, and the civilian uprising descending into a civil war. The war lasted almost 14 years and culminated in the fall of the Assad regime in December 2024. Many sources regard this as the end of the civil war even though clashes have continued into 2026.

ongoing military and political conflict in the Levant

Qing Dynasty era rebellion (1851–1864)

1960s–1990s conflict in Northern Ireland

religious and military conflicts between Protestants and Catholics in France from 1562 to 1598

1793–1796 set of battles between the French revolutionaries and the royalists

civil war taking place in Somalia since 1991

armed conflicts that started from January 2012

1992–1997 civil war in Tajikistan

armed conflict involving Pakistan and armed militant groups

conflict among rival groups seeking to control of the territory of Libya

1983–2005 war for South Sudanese independence

1992–2002 civil war in Algeria between the army and Islamic rebels

widespread struggle in many central-western Mexican states from 1926 to 1929

armed conflicts in Afghanistan since 1978

Armed conflict in the Middle East

series of ongoing insurgencies within Myanmar which began in 1948

conflict started in Nigeria and spread over Cameroon and neighboring regions

conflict between the government of the Central African Republic and rebels

armed conflict in Cabo Delgado Province, Mozambique

16th-century conflict in the Holy Roman Empire

war which took place in Ireland between 1641 and 1653

2011–2020 insurgency in southern Sudan

insurgency in Central Africa from 1987 to 2024

thumb|260 px|Monument of Gonta and Zalizniak in Uman, Ukraine The Koliivshchyna (; ) was a major haidamaky rebellion that broke out in Right-bank Ukraine in June 1768, caused by the dissatisfaction of peasants with the treatment of Orthodox Christians by the Bar Confederation and serfdom, as well as by hostility of Cossacks and peasants to the local Polonized Ruthenian nobility and ethnic Poles. The uprising was accompanied by pogroms against both real and imagined supporters of the Bar Confederation, particularly ethnic Poles, Jews, Roman Catholics, and especially Byzantine Catholic priests a

multi-faceted civil war in Iraq between 2006 and 2008

Communal conflics

2016 joint-military operation involving Pakistan against armed insurgent groups

2024–present conflict

2010-2015 armed conflict in Tajikistan

ongoing civil unrest in the Qatif region of Saudi Arabia

revolt In Iraq

1793 battle